by Mitt Romney
Acknowledgments
Several people helped me a great deal in preparing this book. A number read the entire book and provided advice, additions, and comment. Ann and my family always began conversations about the book by saying that they really enjoyed it, but then suggested some important revisions—they have learned that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Kerry Healey, my former partner as lieutenant governor, provided her characteristic expert corrections and improvements. Bob White, my career-long wingman, sent me several pages of notes, all designed to help keep me from flying into a mountain. Hugh Hewitt, whom I had met when he interviewed me about my 2008 prospects, offered helpful language, edits, and perspective, undoubtedly gleaned from his listening experiences as a prominent talk-show host. The aptly named Jim Talent, former U.S. senator from Missouri, kindly contributed policy thinking and insights, as he has done for me many times before. Eric Fehrnstrom, my press and communications professional for seven years, made sure that what I wrote accurately reflected what I actually wanted to say. And Beth Myers, my chief of staff when I served as governor and my campaign manager in 2008, read and reread what I wrote, reminding me of relevant experiences to relate, tightening my writing, and providing key insights. She made the book happen.
Kelli Harrison, who has worked with me and with my PAC since its inception, kept the writing, logistics, and research processes on track. She also came up with the title after I had spent at least six months trying.
A number of other people read and helped with select chapters and subject areas. Patrick Connelly, Robert Joseph, and Dave Johnson shared a great deal of their brilliant understanding of military matters. Dr. Walid Phares added and corrected portions related to jihadism, a subject about which he is a widely read and respected author. Mark DeMoss and Peter Flaherty shared with me their perspectives and introduced me to great Evangelical thinkers, who expressed a number of helpful views and thoughts. Greg Mankiw not only sent me a copy of his bestselling economics textbook and introduced me to his blog (gregmankiw.blogspot.com), he also volunteered helpful corrections and supplements. Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School, added a number of thoughtful perspectives, particularly regarding the human impact of productivity and economic vitality. I learned a great deal from Robert Kagan, Fred Kagan, and Kim Kagan, each of whom is a vital national resource in matters relating to foreign and military policy. Tim Murphy, my former secretary of health and human services, and Cindy Gillespie, my former state director of policy and legislative affairs, provided their unique expertise on health-care policies. Paul Stringer added his perspective from years as a health-care industry analyst. Risa Kaplan led my research on education, and Bob Costrell and David Porreca helped with materials and perspectives. Matthew Faraci was kind enough to help with research on competitiveness. L. E. Simmons helped bring me up-to-date on the developments in the world of energy. Muneer Satter, an accomplished business leader himself, focused attention on global economic and productivity measures and their impact on consumers. Dan Senor and Pete Wehner sharpened my appreciation of the dangers presented by the shift in our foreign policy. Ambassador Mitchell Reiss has exposed me to foreign policy leaders, thinkers, and players and offered his own expert views of events and dynamics. Nina Easton, the noted journalist and commentator, advised me on ways to make the message of what I had written more clear and compelling. David Weinstein, formerly of Fidelity Investments, helped organize my treatment of the national economy.
Peter Matson’s expertise as an agent served me particularly well, as did the support of his assistant, Rebecca Friedman. Russell Martin, the accomplished author of several books, edited my writing from the beginning of the project, and St. Martin’s George Witte, with help from copy editor Helen Chin, edited it one more time at the end. Sarah Lenti, a policy fixture in D.C., was my lead researcher over the entire period. Risa Kaplan, Ted Newton, and Chris McInerny were so kind to take time off so that they could do the critical work of fact-checking, as well as corrections and edits.
To all of these friends, I owe a great deal.
I also owe a great deal to the scholarship of the many others on whose work I relied upon for facts and figures. In some cases, their names and work were cited in my text. In particular, I am appreciative of the material and perspectives of the scholars at research centers such as the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, the Hoover Institution, the Pioneer Institute, the Cato Institute, and the Brookings Institute. From time to time, on this book’s Web site, NoApology.com, I plan to update figures and materials from these and other sources.
Index
abortion, 265Abu Sayyaf, 96accountability gaps, 80Acheson, Dean, 23, 24, 30ACLU. See American Civil Liberties UnionAdams, Gordon, 93Adams, John, 203–4, 255, 271, 273, 276, 280Adams scholarship, see John and Abigail Adams ScholarshipAdenauer, Konrad, 48adult education programs, 116adverse selection, 172Afghanistan, 67, 278American forces in, 92NATO in, 97–99oppression in, 20–21AFL-CIO, 112African Americans, 198–99, 211, 219, 266, 268agenda for free/strong America, 301–5Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 10, 51, 292AIDS, 76, 228AIG, 154, 167Air Force, U.S., 94Al Jazeera, 70Alaska, 85, 231, 242alliances capacity, 97–100alliesin national power, 97–98NATO, 98skills of, 98United States, 30AMA. See American Medical AssociationAmbassador from CENTCOM, 81AMC. See American Motors CorporationAmerica. See also United Statesagenda for free/strong, 301–5challenges to, 9–12future of, 3generosity of, 76greatness of, 293–99as good nation, 51Peres on uniqueness of, 11pillars for sustaining, 301as power of last resort, 35religion in, 67self-loathing in, 76strength of, 10–11, 19–20, 50, 97, 282–87, 301–5as superpower, 10–11, 23violent jihadist groups and, 64–65, 71America the Beautiful, 296, 299American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 256American cultureAmerican destiny and, 277–79belief/purpose, 259–61demands of citizenship, 271–77as education culture, 255–57family in, 265–69heroes in, 260–61honor/law/constitution in, 269–71nation of hard workers, 249–55overview of, 248–49patriotism in, 261–64respect for life in, 264–65risks/rewards of, 257–59safety-net policies of, 252, 290American defensebudget for, 87–88, 97control of commons, 93–94counterinsurgency forces, 96–97counterinsurgency/land war capacity, 91–93against discontinuities, 94–96fleet for, 87–88in national power, 85–97overview of, 85–88strategic defense in, 88–91American destiny, 277–79American economycreative destruction in, 108–13government assistance in, 113–20government impact on, 126–35innovation and, 104–8, 120–26overview of, 101–4prescriptions for, 139–49regulation in, 136–39research funding, 124–26American educationDemocrats and, 218–19in the home, 210–12how we teach, 201–10innovation and, 220–23obstacles to better schools in, 216–20overview of, 194–98performance/spending in, 209repairing, 200teachers in, 212–16American Enterprise Institute, 57, 287American exceptionalism, 29, 33American flag, 262–63, 298–99American greatness, 293–99American Medical Association (AMA), 182American Motors Corporation (AMC), 104, 253Romney, George, at, 6–7, 34, 116, 224–25American Revolution, 8, 85, 270The American Challenge (Servan-Schreiber), 2Amin, Idi, 292Apple, 12, 35APX, 123Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska), 231, 242arms, 289arms race, 99Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, 188astronauts, 298–99AT&T, 185–86authoritarian rule, 14automobile industry, 116–17, 224–25bailout of, 118Bain, Bill, 43, 169Bain & Company, 136, 169, 213, 257Ballmer, Steve, 257banks, ballout of, 127–28Barnett, Thomas P. M., 79al-Bashir, Omar, 45, 89, 292BCG. See Boston Consulting GroupBennett, Bill, 263Berlin Airlift, 24Berlin Wall, 9, 57Bible, 291–92Big Three automakers, 36, 117Big Three entitlements, 151–53Bill of Rights, 270bin Laden, Osama, 18, 48, 68, 72–73, 96, 292Black Caucus, 219The Black Swan (Taleb), 143Blair, Bonnie, 261Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation, 174Blumenthal, Dan, 57Blunt, Matt, 278Bolton, John, 60, 76boots on the ground, 91Boston Consulting Group (BCG), 12, 36Boston Globe, 256Boy Scout Court of Honor, 297Brennan, Christine, 22Bretton Woods, 28Bristol Myers Squibb, 133British empire, 39–40Brokaw, Tom, 150Brookings Institute, 157B
rooks, David, 92Burma, 45Bush, George H. W., 9, 24Bush, George W., 22, 24, 26, 57, 76, 156, 167, 219bank ballouts and, 127–28cordiality of, 74economic stimulus by, 144humanitarian programs of, 77–78mortgage crisis and, 143Bush administration, 119, 161CAFE. See Corporate Average Fuel Economy campaign(s)1994 senatorial, 274–752008 presidential, 272–73contributions, 274finance reform, 218friendships during, 1for governor, 250–51unions and, 275CanadaGDP, 13medical treatment in, 183cap-and-trade mandate, 227, 243–45capitalfrom corporate profits, 131–32foreign risk, 135innovation in use of, 104productivity fueled by, 126–35savings/investments as, 134surplus government funds as, 134–35tax savings and, 129–31capitalism, 25carbon tax, 246card check, 112Carter, Jimmy, 24Castro, Fidel, 10, 21, 26, 27, 31, 44, 77, 80Cedar Revolution, 78censorship, 21Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 48, 59Challenger, 298–99challengesto America, 9–12domestic, 2Chamberlain, Neville, 46, 47Chávez, Hugo, 10, 26, 27, 31, 51, 75, 77, 225–26Cheney, Dick, 261Chiang Kai-shek, 53child labor, 119China, 281authoritarian rule in, 14censorship in, 21Communist Party of, 53cyber-warfare of, 54–55, 94–95deoline of, 38–39defense budget of, 97economic power of, 74education in, 120as espionage threat, 84free enterprise in, 15Great Wall of, 38–39greenhouse gases in, 229–30Japan and, 52–53military of, 87, 100navy of, 54Olympic Summer Games in, 21personal freedom in, 21–22power pursued by, 52–58Purchasing Power Parity of, 83space-warfare, 54–55Taiwan and, 56United States reaching out to, 57world power strategies of, 13–16as world’s factory, 15Christensen, Clayton, 107, 222–23Chu, Steven, 233Chubb, John, 218, 221Churchill, Winston, 23, 28, 46–48CIA. See Central Intelligence Agencycitizenship, demands of, 271–77, 286civil rights, 198–200, 288Civil War, U.S., 3, 86, 281CLASS, 154climate change, 227–31Clinton, William Jefferson 9, 24, 48, 77Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 28Clinton administration, 94, 139coal, 241coalition of the willing, 74Cody, Richard, 92co-insurance systems, 187cold fusion, 233Cold War, 16, 24, 58–59, 63, 68doctrine, 89end of, 92expense of, 99Columbia, 75Columbus, Christopher, 37, 107–8Comcast, 132comfort women, 53Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction, 73Communism, 14–15, 22, 32Communist Party, 53The Competitive Advantage of Nations (Porter), 196computer science, 121–22Confucius, 38Congressional Budget Office, 164Conover, Christopher, 182Constitution, U.S., 269–71, 280consumer price index (CPI), 159consumption tax, 130–31control of commons, 93–94Copenhagen Consensus, 228Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), 234–36, 239, 245corporate profitscapital from, 131–32taxes and, 132–34Cosby, Bill, 46Council of Economic Advisers, 179Council on Foreign Relations, 55Cranbrook, 194–95creative destruction, 250in American economy, 108–13innovation and, 108–13in Russia, 109–10as stressful, 110Cuban misslle crisis, 52Cultural Revolution, 22culture, See also American cultureeducation, 256–57innovation and, 122–23currency, 127–28cyber-schools, 221–22cyber-warfareChinese, 54–55, 94–95deterrence of, 95–96Russian, 62United States, 55Czech Republic, 89Dalai Lama, 28Damon, Peter, 260Darfur, 30Datta, E. Kyle, 232Davies, Becky, 222Davy Crockett (TV show), 224debates, 1, 46debt, 166–67DEC. See Digital Equipment Companydefense budgetAmerican, 87–88, 97Chinese, 97German, 97Japanese, 97Obama and, 99of Reagan, 100Russian, 97defensive medicine, 182deficits, 10, 135, 146, 166democracy, 23, 25, 28Islam and, 66self-interest in, 45Thatcher on, 32Democrats, 24, 136, 144–45, 167, 174American education and, 218–19health care and, 290Republicans and, 287–88taxes and, 289unions and, 289Deng Xiaoping, 56Detroit News, 195Diamond, Jared, 249Digital Equipment Company (DEC), 107Disneyland (TV show), 224Disrupting Class (Christensen), 222–23Dodd, Chris, 143Donnelly, Thomas, 97Driscoll, David, 204drug use, 9DSH payments, 173Dutch disease, 42Eaton, Theresa, 264economic stimulus, 144–45Economist, 124economy. See also American economydeficita, 10, 135, 146, 166economic freedom, 25Obama policies, 31–32as prosperity’s basis, 101strong, 301education, 147, 197, 205, 286. See also American education; schools; teachersadult education programs, 116in China, 120as civil right, 198–200culture, 255–57in Germany, 121in India, 120innovation and, 120–22in Massachusetts, 201–5, 207revenues, 217of Romney, Mitt, 194–95in the United States, 120–21Einstein, Albert, 181Eisenhower, Dwight, 24, 48Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), 95EMP. See Electromagnetic PulseEmployee Free Choice Act. 112employment, 116energy. See also cap-and-trade mandate; coal; natural gas; nuclear power; oilburden, 285cold fusion, 233as complex issue, 247demand/supply, 234–36feebate, 236game changers, 243–47hands-off approach to, 232legacy, 231–33security of, 232entitlements. See also Medicaid; Medicare; Social SecurityBig Three, 151–53nightmare, 151–53rectifying, 156sustainable, 168–80entrepreneurialism, 41, 126–27, 250, 257Eruzione, Mike, 262–63espionage, 84ethanol, 233, 246EU. See European UnionEuropean Union (EU), 13, 281as superpower, 97–98Evil Empire, 82exports, 114, 147Ezzali, Majid, 191F-22, 87–88F-35 Joint Force Fighter, 95fair tax, 130–31family. See also marriage; out-of-wedlock birthsin American culture, 265–69disintegration of, 46Fannie Mae, 139, 143fascism, 32fatah, 67FBI. See Federal Bureau of InvestigationFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 84Federal Reserve, 126, 143FedEx, 106feebate, 236Field of Dreams phenomenon, 164Fifth Amendment, 22financial crisis, 146Finland, 213–14First Amendment, 21–22, 276Fisher, Max, 274–75Five Good Emperors, 47force for good, 291–93Ford, Gerald, 225Ford, Henry, 105foreign competition, 41Foreign Military Studies Office, U. S., 61foreign policychange in, 22–34of Obama, 25–33of Putin, 57–60of Truman, 24foreign risk capital, 135Forster, Greg, 210Foy, Doug, 236France, 81co-insurance systems of, 187Frank, Barney, 143Freddie Mac, 139, 143free enterprise, 23, 25, 76China, 15United States, 14freedom. See also personal freedomeconomic, 25prevalence of, 283Freedom House, 21, 226Friedman, Thomas, 121, 137–38, 198, 225Future Jihad (Phares), 19G-8, 60, 74Gandhi, Mahatma, 48gas guzzling dinosaurs, 224–25Gates, Bill, 121, 130Gates, Robert, 54, 93GATT, 24Gawande, Atul, 177, 186GDP. See gross domestic productGeitner, Timothy, 128GEN3 Partners, 17General Motors, 34, 118, 145, 167, 180, 290genocide, 226geopolitical threats, 2Georgia, 58–60, 62, 91Germanydefense budget of, 97education in, 121G.I. Bill, 196glasnost, 57global recession, 146God Bless America, 296Google, 47Gorbachev, Mlkhail, 48, 57, 59Gordon, Gary, 264governmentassisting American economy, 113–20impacting American economy, 126–35surplus funds of, 134–35Great Depression, 10, 147, 150Great Society, 264Great Wall, 38–39Greatest Generation, 150Greene, Jay, 210greenhouse gases, 228abatement of, 238in China, 229–30no-regrets policy of, 230reducing, 237Greenspan, Alan, 110, 142gross domestic product (GDP), 101, 104, 152, 180, 284of Canada, 13of Russia, 17of the United States, 13, 146Ground Truth (Donnelly/Kagan, F.), 97group think, 47growth strategy, 149Grumman F-11 fighter, 84Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond), 249Gutenberg, Johannes, 38Hamas, 18, 82Hanushek, Eric, 197hard power, 74military in, 83of Russia, 82–83weight in national power, 82–85Havel, Václav, 48Health and Human Services Department, U.S., 173health care, 163, 285Democrats and, 290free market, 184–86helping people, 170–76incentives, 186–90legislation, 193living healthier lives, 191–93Massachusetts Model of, 176–79new methods/new outcomes in, 181–84Obama plan for, 176overview of, 168–70single-payer, 184, 188, 192taming, 179–81transparency in, 181Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), 188health savings accounts (HSAs), 187, 190Heiden, Eric, 261Henderson, Bruce, 36Heritage Foundation, 62, 95, 157, 171, 173, 230, 240, 268Hero, 108heroes, 260–61Hewitt, Hugh, 268Hezbollah, 18, 64, 70, 78–79, 82, 91, 292Hispanics, 198–99, 211Hitler, Adolf, 10, 35, 39, 46, 86, 292HMOs. See Health Maintenance OrganizationsHobsbawm, Eric, 11Holbrooke, Richard, 81holiday from history, 9holy warriors, 63–73Homeland Security screenings, 123Homes for Our Troops, 260homeschooling, 222Hong Kong, 56honor, 269–71hospitals, 105, 112, 168–70hotel industry, 111–12housing prices1950–2000, 1401950–2009, 141HSAs. See health savings accountsHu Jintao, 14, 57Hubbard, R. Glen, 201Hubble telescope, 125Hudson Institute, 95human intelligence, 9human rights, 23, 28Hussein, Saddam, 10, 35, 78, 86, 91, 292IBM, 107Idylls of the King (Tennyson), 194IED. See improvised explosive deviceIMF. See International Monetary Fundimmigration, 123–24. See also reverse immigrationimprovised explosive device (IED), 63income, 103, 146of teachers, 215Income and Weal
th (Reynolds), 146Index of Leading Indicators, 282–87India, 281education in, 120Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, 52Ingrassia, Paul, 118innovationAmerican economy and, 104–8, 120–26American education and, 220–23creative destruction and, 108–13culture and, 122–23education and, 120–22implementing, 107index of, 284–85labor and, 105opposition to, 111productivity propelled by, 104–8unions and, 112in the use of capital, 104value of goods and, 105The Innovator’s Dilemma (Christensen), 107Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 130International Monetary Fund (IMF), 24Internet pornography, 9Iran, 10, 27, 30, 281nuclear weapons in, 89–91radicalism of, 18–19Russia and, 17–18value in controlling, 70world power strategies, 18–19Iraq, 10, 47, 277–78U.S. invasion of, 58Iraq War, 10–11, 74, 279Iron Curtain, 48, 263IRS. See Internal Revenue ServiceIslam, 19, 64, 96democracy and, 66societal domination and, 65Islamic International Brigade, 96Israel, 19Obama pressuring, 27Jaish-e-Mohammed, 19Jansen, Dan, 261Japan, 35, 197, 281. See also Pearl Harbor attackChina and, 52–53defense budget of, 97pharmacies, 164productivity of, 109teachers in, 213Jews, 19, 67jihad, 64jihadist groups. See violent jihadist groupsJimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches, 123John, Jimmy, 123John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, 203–4Johnson, Lyndon B., 152, 264Johnson, Samuel, 82Joint Strike Fighter, 88Judeo-Christian heritage, 264Kadish, Lawrence, 166Kagan, Donald, 51Kagan, Frederick, 97Kaiser Permanente, 165, 189Kaplan, Robert, 97Karzai, Hamid, 20Kelley, Tom, 295–96Kennedy, John F., 9, 24, 28Kennedy, Ted, 174, 272Khalil, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, 19Khomeini, Ayatollah, 66–67Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali, 89Khomeinists, 70, 292Kim Jong-il, 10, 21, 44, 292KIPP. See Knowledge Is Power ProgramKnowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), 214Knox, Henry, 8Koomey, Jonathan, 232Korean War, 10, 264Kosovo, 58Koss, Johann Olav, 261Krauthammer, Charles, 9, 246on American umbrella, 26Kurds, 78Kursk, 61Kyoto Treaty, 244Kyrgyzstan, 60laborchild, 119innovation and, 105organization/management, 106regulation, 136–38laboratories of democracy, 177lack of vision, 43Lady and the Tramp (movie), 224Landes, David, 41, 249, 264Landon, Michael, 64Lang, Scott, 202large-scale store law, 109Lashkar-e-Taiba, 19Latin America, 80law, 109, 269–71Leavitt, Mike, 174Lebanon, 71, 78–79, 81Lebanon War (2006), 78Ledeen, Michael, 292Lehman Brothers, 127, 154, 167Lerrick, Adam, 287Let’s Make a Deal (TV chow), 195–96Lewis, William, 109Liberating Learning (Moe/Chubb), 218, 221Libya, 77Lincoln, Abraham, 33Lomborg, Bjorn, 228–29The Looming Tower (Wright), 65–66Loris, Nicolas, 240Louisiana Purchase, 85Lovins, Amory B., 232, 235Lukyanov, Fyodor, 58malnutrition, 228malpractice system, 182Mandela, Nelson, 48Manhattan Institute, 210Mankiw, Greg, 246Mao Zedong, 22, 39, 53, 55, 292marijuana, 261Mariott, J. W. (Bill), 254Mariott International, 254marriage, 266, 269. See also familyMarshall, George C., 23Marshall Plan, 24Massachusettseducation in, 201–5, 207health care model, 176–79Parental Preparation Program of, 215Romney, Mitt, as governor of, 11, 133, 152, 155, 161, 201, 205–6, 219, 223, 244, 252–53, 273–74schools in, 219–20Taxpayer Foundation, 179teachers in, 214–15Massachusetts Model, 176–79Matthews, Jay, 214Mayo Clinic, 189McCaffrey, Bill, 260McCain, John, 74, 128, 243, 245McCullough, David, 204McDonald’s, 105McKinsey & Company, 109, 208, 213–14, 237–39McNeill, Jena, 95Me Generation, 261media, 47Medicaid, 151–53repairing, 161–62Medicare, 151–53repairing, 162–65Medvedev, Dmitry, 60Mein Kampf (Hitler), 292Meir, Golda, 48Michigan, 5–7, 119Microsoft, 12, 35military, 9, 61, 124American, 84–85Chinese, 87, 100in hard power, 83Russian, 60–61, 87strong, 301Miloševi, Slobodan, 35, 292minicomputers, 107Minutemen, 87missile defense program, 18Mitchell, George, 81Moe, Terry, 218, 221Mongan, James J., 181, 189moon landing, 9Morgan, John, 168Morgan Knitting Mills, 168Mormon Tabernacle Choir, 262Mormonism, 5, 115, 195, 262mortgage crisis, 72, 139blame for, 143Bush, George W., and, 143housing prices (1950–2000), 140housing prices (1950–2009), 141irrational exuberance and, 142recovering from, 144Moscow Treaty Agreement, 55Mother Caroline Academy, 266movable type, 38Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 46, 266Mugabe, Robert, 45, 226Muhammad, John Allen, 72Muslim Brotherhood, 18, 67, 82Muslims, 18, 64, 67, 82Myers, Beth, 273Myers, Walter Dean, 266NASA, 9, 105, 108Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 68National Academy of Sciences, 197National Assessment of Educational Progress, 199, 205. See also Nation’s Report CardNational Center for Voluntary Action, 7National Commission on Excellence in Education, 197, 200national consensus, 48national debt, 285National Guard, 92, 93national objectives, 2–3National Petroleum Institute, 234national poweralliances capacity in, 97–100allies in, 97–98American defense in, 85–97growing soft power, 75–82hard power’s weight in, 82–85sources of, 74–75national sacrifice, 295national security assessment, 283national strength, 3nationalization, 148nations decline, 35British empire, 39–40Chinese, 38–39common causes of, 40–42fiddling while burning, 43–50Ottomans, 36–38reversal of, 47–49Nation’s Report Card, 205NATO. See North Atlantic Treaty Organizationnatural gas, 241Nau, Henry, 98–99navyChinese, 54U.S., 54, 87–88, 94Nazism, 10, 32, 35, 39, 46, 86, 292New Deal, 152New England Journal of Medicine, 175New Hampshire motto, 20new international ordercreation of, 23pillars of, 23–24New York Times, 17, 92, 139, 242New Yorker, 177, 186Newsweek, 7, 57, 2599/11 Commission, 73, 86Nixon administration, 7No Child Left Behind, 219Nokia, 115no-regrets policy, 230North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 18, 24, 57–58, 60in Afghanistan, 97–99allies, 98friends in, 77Obama and, 99North Korea, 18, 27, 30, 281nuclear weapons of, 77, 89–90Novartis, 132nuclear age, 23nuclear deterrence, 88–89nuclear disarmamentglobal, 90verifying, 90nuclear power, 239–40nuclear weapons. See also weapons of mass destructionof Iran, 89–91of North Korea, 77, 89–90of Russia, 88–90of the United States, 89Obama, Barack, 87, 156, 163, 182, 268, 282American exceptionalism and, 29apologies by, 25–26campaign contributions and, 274common interests of human beings and, 29defending tire companies, 110defense budget and, 99economic policies of, 31–32as embodiment of change, 22foreign policy of, 25–33health care plan of, 176Israel pressured by, 27missile defense program and, 18NATO and, 99on power, 29spending program of, 166tax plan of, 287Zelaya and, 27Obama administration, 2, 10, 89, 221economic agenda, 148OECD. See Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developmentoil, 43–44, 226–27alternatives to foreign, 239–43consumption of, in manufacturing, 236–39drilling, 231–32, 241–42shocks of 1973/2008, 235Olympic Summer Games (Beijing, China), 21Olympic Winter Games of 1980, 262Olympic Winter Games of 2002, 261–62, 296Omar, Mullah, 18On Empire (Hobsbawm), 11On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace (Kagan), 51OPEC, 232Operation Miracle, 80Opportunity Scholarship Program, 220–21Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 182, 189, 208, 210Ottomans Empire, 36–38, 44out-of-wedlock births, 266–68, 277, 285–88Pac-Man effect, 153Paine, Thomas, 24Palestine, 27pan-European collaboration, 2Para, Derek, 261–62Parental Preparation Program, 216Partners HealthCare, 181, 189Passages (Sheehy), 150–51patriotism, 261–64Paulson, Henry, 127–28peace, 88power and, 51Pearl Harbor attack, 8, 33, 48, 86Pederson, Todd, 122–23Pentagon’s New Map (Barnett), 79Peolosi, Nancy, 163People’s Liberation Army, 53Peres, Shimon, 11perestroika, 57Perot, Ross, 247Perrigo Company, 192Perry-Schlesinger Commission, 88personal freedomin China, 21–22world power strategies and, 19–22Peterson, Peter G., 152, 160Pew Global Attitudes, 69Phares, Walid, 19, 73Phelps, Edmund, 149Pol Pot, 292Poland, 48, 89political shell game, 153–58polls, 273–74Polo, Marco, 38populism, 276pornography, 9Porter, Michael, 114, 121, 196, 198Portugal, 49post-American world, 28Postal Service, U.S., 106poverty, 41, 229, 249in United States, 146War on Poverty, 266Powell, Colin, 11power. See also hard power; national power; soft power; superpower; world power strategiesChina pursuing, 52–58of last resort, 35nuclear, 239–40Obama on, 29peace and, 51prioritizing sources of, 73Russia pursuing, 57–63violent jihadist groups pursuing, 63–73power corrupts, 51Pozen, Bob, 159Pozen Plan, 159–60PPP. See Purchasing Power ParityPresent at the Creation (Acheson), 23prevalence of freedom, 283primaries, 1, 46. See also campaign(s); debatesproductivity, 101capital fueling, 126–35growing, 103growth strategy and, 149innovation propelling, 104–8in Japan, 109relative, 284in Russia, 110unions and, 113workforce, 102–3protectionism, 119–20Protestant Reformation, 37–38Proverbs, 42Purchas
ing Power Parity (PPP), 83purpose-driven lives, 259pursuing the difficult, 7–8Putin, Vladimir, 17–18, 51, 63, 226draft and, 61foreign policy of, 57–60on G-8, 60Qaddafi, Muammar, 26, 52, 77al Qaeda, 9, 18, 19, 48, 64, 71, 73, 96, 292quality manufacturing, 105–6Qur’an, 39, 66Qutb, Sayyid, 68Rambler automobile, 6, 34, 224–25Rand Corporation, 220Randt, Clark, Jr., 56R&D. See research and developmentReagan, Ronald, 9, 24, 45, 48, 57, 263defense budget of, 100on war, 10recession, 44Regional Presidential Envoy, 80regulationin American economy, 136–39dynamic, 136–39labor, 136–38new businesses and, 137–38Reid, Harry, 163relative productivity, 284religion, 259–61, 291–92. See also Mormonismin America, 67Judeo-Christian heritage, 264Protestant Reformation, 37–38Republicans and, 288Republicans, 24, 132, 136, 167arms and, 289civil rights and, 288debates, 46Democrats and, 287–88green, 288religion and, 288research and development (R&D), 124–26, 147respect for life, 264–65Reuther, Walter, 253reverse immigration, 123Reynolds, Alan, 146Ridley, Matt, 229rightsBill of Rights, 270civil, 198–200, 288human, 23, 28Rocky Mountain Institute, 235Roman Catholic Church, 43, 44Romney, Ann, 1, 21, 192–93, 195, 293, 297, 301Romney, Ben, 195Romney, Craig, 195Romney, George, 1, 274–75, 288, 293at AMC, 6–7, 34, 116, 224–25early life, 5–6as Housing and Urban Development secretary, 7as Michigan governor, 7as National Center for Voluntary Action founder, 7on success, 34Romney, Josh, 183, 195Romney, Matt, 192, 195Romney, Mittat Bain & Company, 136, 213, 257at Boston Consulting Group, 36education of, 194–95as Massachusetts governor, 11, 133, 152, 155, 161, 201, 205–6, 219, 223, 244, 252–53, 273–74Mormon mission of, 195as strategy consultant, 12Romney, Tagg, 192, 195Roosevelt, Franklin D., 28, 152, 274Roosevelt, Theodore, 257, 288Ross, Dennis, 81Roth, Eldon, 123Rumsfeld, Donald, 87, 91–92Running on Empty (Peterson), 152Russia, 10, 30, 58, 226, 281creative destruction in, 109–10cyber-warfare of, 62defense budget of, 97energy strategy of, 17GDP, 17hard power of, 82–83Iran and, 17–18life expectancy in, 62military of, 60–61, 87missile defense program of, 18nuclear weapons of, 88–90population of, 63power pursued by, 57–63productivity of, 110re-setting, 26superpower aspiration of, 16world power strategies of, 16–18Russia in Global Affairs, 58Sabin, Gary, 297Sabin, Jennifer, 297Sabin, Valerie, 297Sadat, Anwar, 66, 70safety-net policies, 252, 290Salafism, 68sales taxes, 131same-sex marriage, 269Samuelson, Robert, 182–83Sanchez, Orlando, 264Saudi Arabia, 16schools. See also teacherscyber-, 221–22home, 222Massachusetts, 219–20national testing, 263obstacles to better, 216–20teaching to the test in, 219virtual academies, 221–22Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 133Schweitzer, Brian, 278Scissors, Derek, 230sea level changes, 228Second Amendment, 270, 288security, 23self-loathing, 76seniors, 151–52lobbyists for, 155September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 10, 19, 33, 49, 65, 72, 262, 296. See also 9/11 CommissionSerbia, 60Servan-Schreiber, Jean Jacques, 2sharia, 65Sheehy, Gail, 150–51shepherd king, 258Shia extremism, 18, 78Shiller, Robert J., 140, 141Shughart, Randy, 264Shwe, Than, 45Simmons, Matt, 233Sims, Jim, 17Singapore, 216single-payer health care, 184, 188, 192Sino-Japanese War, 52–53Sloan, Alfred, 105small footprint/huge impact, 97Smick, David, 134Social Security, 46, 151–53bankruptcy of, 158repairing, 158–61trust fund, 157socialized medicine, 193societal domination, 65soft power, 74applying, 99exercising, 81growing in national power, 75–82past/present uses of, 79–80Somalia, 264Soros, George, 276South Korea, 53, 197teachers in, 213–14, 216Soviet Uniondissolution of, 9, 16, 57, 60, 86violent jihadist groups and, 67space-warfareChinese, 54–55U.S., 54–55Spain, 42, 49Special Partnership Forces, 96–97Spencer, Jack, 240Sputnik, 8, 48Stalin, Joseph, 58–59, 292Staples, 7The Star-Spangled Banner, 263, 296status quo, 44steel industry, 104–5, 110, 119Steinbeck, John, 292Steinbrook, Robert, 175Stemberg, Tom, 170Sterling, Robert, 295strategy consultant, 12Sudan, 44–45, 226suicide bombings, 69Sunni Wahhabism, 18superpowerAmerica as, 10–11, 23EU as, 97–98Russia’s aspiration for, 16Supreme Court, U.S., 276Surrender Is Not an Option (Bolton), 76Switzerland, 187Syria, 30, 79Taiwan, 10China and, 56takfir, 66Taleb, Nassim, 143Taliban, 10, 20, 91tariffs, 114TARP, 128tax savings, 129–31taxes, 285. See also cap-and-trade mandatecarbon tax, 246consumption tax, 130–31corporate profits and, 132–34Democrats and, 289fair tax, 130–31Obama plan for, 287sales taxes, 131tax savings, 129–31VAT, 131Taylor, John, 271Taymiya, Ibn, 68teachers. See also schoolsin American education, 212–16in Finland, 213–14income, 215in Japan, 213in Massachusetts, 214–15in Singapore, 216in South Korea, 213–14, 216unions, 216–18, 222–23in the United States, 212–16winnowing process, 215teaching to the test, 219Ted’s Drive-In, 105television manufacturing, 114Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 194terrorism, 64. See also September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; violent jihadist groupsU.S. preventing attacks of, 72war on terror, 76Thatcher, Margaret, 30on democracy, 32Thomas, Helen, 65Thompson, Tommy, 161–62, 174Tibet, 56Time, 7Tocqueville, Alexis de, 258totalitarianism, 282Toyota, 105–6, 117trade, 60, 113, 119. See also cap-and-trade mandatebarriers to, 147economic sense of, 115encouraging, 119unrestricted, 116transparency, 181Travaglini, Robert, 174Truman, Harry, 23, 28, 30, 48, 80foreign policy, 24Truman Doctrine, 24Twilight in the Desert (Simmons), 2332008 primary, 46Tytler, Alexander Fraser, 45UAW. See United Auto WorkersUkraine, 58UN. See United Nationsunemployment, 3, 103–4as positive, 115uninsured, 172unions. See also specific unionscampaigns and, 275Democrats and, 289growth of, 113innovation and, 112productivity and, 113secret-ballot elections and, 112teachers, 216–18, 222–23United Auto Workers (UAW), 117–18, 253United Brotherhood of Carpenters, 254United Kingdommedical treatment in, 183retirement crisis in, 160United Nations (UN), 24as ineffective, 78United States. See also America; national powerair force, 94allies, 30China and, 57cyber-warfare and, 55education in, 120–21free enterprise and, 14GDP of, 13, 146Iraq invaded by, 58navy, 54, 87–88, 94nuclear weapons, 89poverty in, 146PPP, 83space-warfare and, 54–55teachers, 212–16terrorist attacks prevented by, 72world power strategies of, 13UPS, 106USA Today, 22Using Cyclical Indicators, 283USS Cole, 71USS Kitty Hawk, 54Value Added Tax (VAT), 131value of goods, 102–3, 105Vanguard rocket, 8–9Vasella, Daniel, 132VAT. See Value Added TaxVenezuela, 225–26Vietnam War, 10–11violence, domestic, 266violent jihadist groups, 18–20, 32–33, 48–49, 86, 97. See also specific groupsAmerica and, 64–65, 71asymmetrical warfare, 71–72dismissing, 69as holy warriors, 63–73power pursued by, 63–73Soviet Union and, 67tactics of, 69targets of, 70virtual academies, 221–22. See also cyber-schoolsVolkswagen, 117Wahhabis, 18–19, 64, 68, 292Walesa, Lech, 26, 48Wall Street Journal, 64, 95, 118, 130, 166, 168, 179, 287, 292Walmart, 111war. See also cyber-warfare; Pearl Harbor attack; specific warsfollowing war, 86land war capacity, 91–93Reagan on, 10warfare, asymmetrical, 71–72War of 1812, 85War on Poverty, 266war on terror, 76Warren, Rick, 76Washington, George, 8Washington Post, 182, 214Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Landes), 41, 249weapons of mass destruction, 72–73. See also nuclear weaponsweeding, 5–7Weitz, Richard, 95Weld, Bill, 106, 201–2, 203Wennberg, John, 189White, Bob, 272Widmer, Michael J., 179Wikipedia, 47Will, George, 258Williams, Juan, 46, 266Williams, Ted, 124Winning the Oil Endgame (Lovins/Datta/Bustnes/Koomey), 232winnowing process for teachers, 215Winthrop, John, 24women in workforce, 8Wonderful World of Disney (TV show), 224Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 93Work Hard, Be Nice (Matthews), 214workforce productivity, 102–3World Bank, 24, 137, 191world power strategiesof China, 13–16of Iran, 18–19overview, 12–13personal freedom and, 19–22of Russia, 16–18of United States, 13World Trade Center. See September 11, 2001, terrorist attacksWorld Trade Organization, 60, 119World War I, 86World War II, 8, 87World Zionism conference, 292The World Is Curved (Smick), 134The World Is Flat (Friedman), 137–38, 198worst generation, 150–51Wright, Lawrence, 65–66Yeltsin, Boris, 48, 57, 59–60Yuan Zelu, 55Yushchenko, Viktor, 58Zakaria, Fareed, 28al-Zawahiri, Ayman, 18, 68Zelaya, Manuel, 27Zimbabwe, 30, 45, 226
